Sirat Ibn Hisham 1032
Account of the poetry recited on the day of Uḥud
[ شِعْرُ ضِرَارٍ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى كَعْبٍ ] فَأَجَابَهُ ضِرَارُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ الْفِهْرِيُّ فَقَالَ أَيَجْزَعُ كَعْبٌ لِأَشْيَاعِهِ وَيَبْكِي مِنْ الزَّمَنِ الْأَعْوَجْ عَجِيجَ الْمُذَكِّي رَأَى إلْفَهُ تَرَوَّحَ فِي صَادِرٍ مُحْنَجْ فَرَاحَ الرَّوَايَا وَغَادَرْنَهُ يُعَجْعِجُ قَسْرًا وَلَمْ يُحْدَجْ فَقُولَا لِكَعْبٍ يُثَنِّي اُلْبُكَا وَلِلنِّيءِ مِنْ لَحْمِهِ يَنْضَجْ لِمَصْرَعِ إخْوَانِهِ فِي مَكَرٍّ مِنْ الْخَيْلِ ذِي قَسْطَلٍ مُرْهَجْ فَيَا لَيْتَ عَمْرًا وَأَشْيَاعَهُ وَعُتْبَةَ فِي جَمْعِنَا السَّوْرَجْ فَيَشْفُوا النُّفُوسَ بِأَوْتَارِهَا بِقَتْلَى أُصِيبَتْ مِنْ الْخَزْرَجْ وَقَتْلَى مِنْ الْأَوْسِ فِي مَعْرَكٍ أُصِيبُوا جَمِيعًا بِذِي الْأَضْوُجْ وَمَقْتَلِ حَمْزَةَ تَحْتَ اللِّوَاءِ بِمُطَّرِدِ، مَارِنٍ، مُخْلَجْ وَحَيْثُ انْثَنَى مُصْعَبٌ ثَاوِيًا بِضَرْبَةٍ ذِي هَبَّةٍ سَلْجَجْ بِأُحُدٍ وَأَسْيَافُنَا فِيهِمْ تَلَهَّبُ كَاللَّهَبِ الْمُوهَجِ غَدَاةَ لَقِينَاكُمْ فِي الْحَدِيدِ كَأُسْدِ الْبَرَاحِ فَلَمْ تُعْنَجْ بِكُلِّ مُجَلِّحَةٍ كَالْعُقَابِ وَأَجْرَدَ ذِي مَيْعَةٍ مُسْرَجْ فَدُسْنَاهُمْ ثَمَّ حَتَّى انْثَنَوْا سِوَى زَاهِقِ النَّفْسِ أَوْ مُحْرَجْ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَبَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالشِّعْرِ يُنْكِرُهَا لِضِرَارٍ. وَقَوْلُ كَعْبٍ: ذِي النُّورِ وَالْمَنْهَجْ عَنْ أَبِي زَيْدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ
Translation
✧ [Poetry of Ḍirār in reply to Kaʿb] Ḍirār b. al-Khaṭṭāb al-Fihrī answered him, saying: Does Kaʿb grieve for his partisans and weep at the crookedness of time— The clamor of a slaughtered beast that sees its mate go off with a departing, hobbled drove, While the water-bearers depart and leave it bawling under compulsion, not yet loaded with a howdah? Say to Kaʿb: let him resume the weeping, and for the raw of his flesh let it be cooked— For the slaying-place of his brothers, in a charge of horses through a dense, dust-whirling cloud. Would that ʿAmr and his partisans and ʿUtbah were in our assembled host, To heal the souls with their rancor by slain men struck down from the Khazraj, And slain men of the Aws in a battle-field, all struck down together at Dhū al-Aḍwaj, And the killing of Ḥamzah beneath the standard by a straight, pliant, well-tempered spear, And where Muṣʿab turned, laid low by the blow of a keen, swift sword— At Uḥud, while our swords among them blazed like a fierce, glowing flame— On the morning we met you in iron, like lions of the open plain, and we were not held back, With every short-eared mare like an eagle, and a smooth, swift, saddled steed. We trampled them there until they turned away, save one whose soul was departing or one sorely wounded. Ibn Hishām said: Some of the people of knowledge in poetry reject that these are by Ḍirār. And the saying of Kaʿb, "of light and of the path," is on the authority of Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī.
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